Windshield glass



May 155. 1928.

H. L. KLEIN WINDSHIELD GLASS Filed Sept. 21, 1923 ZZUWW ty@ Z .Klez'z.

Patented May 15, 1928.

UNITED STATES HUGO L. KLEIN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,

ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, E@

MISSISSIPPI GLASS COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF YORK.

WINDSHIELD GLASS.

Application filed September 21, 1923.' Serial No. 664342.

My invention relates to glass and more particularly to glass for automobile wind shields or similar purposes.

lt is the purpose of the invention to provide reinforcing members such as wires in an autonobile wind shield that are of such a character that the same will not materially interfere with or obstruct the vision of the driver of the vehicle.

The glass can be used for other purposes than automobile wind shields, such as for windows n automobles or other vehicles or n other places where danger of breaka'ge of the glass exists but where it is deshable that clear vision can he obtained.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear as the description o the accompanying drawings proceeds. However, I desire to have it distinctly understood that I do not intend to limit myself to the exact details shown or described, but

that I intend to include as part of my 1n-- Fig. 2 is a fragmentary transverse sectional View enlarged thereof.

Referring in detail to the' drawings, in Fig. 1 ,is shown a pane-of glass 10 which .is provided with reinforcing wires 11 thereu in, said wires 11 being arranged in substantial parallelism. The wires 11, as^w1ll he clear from Fig. 2, are embedded in the glass 10 when the glass is heing' manufactured, one way of making the same being to place the wires in position in the mold and cast the glass about the wires. The wires it will be noted from Fig. 2, are Very small compared with the tlickness of the glass and said wires are held under at least sufficient tension to take all kinks out of the same so that the wires will lie stretched straight in the mold when the glass is poured. The exact amount of tension on the wires may be varied in accordance with conditions or to obtain the best result in practice. Preferably, the wires. 11 are piano wire which is very strong' for its size and can be stretched considerably without inj'ury thereto. lt is preferred that a fine wire be used which i will not interfere With the vision of the person looking through the pane of glass but ofsuflicient strength so as to reinforce the glass along said wires.

Preferably, the wires extend horizontally in the wind shield glass and are spaced apart so that ordinarily none of the wires will interfcre with the vision when the vehiele is in motion.

The pane of glass shown in Fig. 1 is intended to represent 'a pane of suflicient size 'for a wind shield and it will be evident that the wires 11 are spaccd a considerable (lis- 'tance apart therein. The wires 11 will reini'orce the gla'ss so'as to decrease the danger of fracture thereof and in case a 'racture should occur the tendency will be for the glass to fraoture along said reinforcing members 11, thuscausing a clean straight fracture in the glass which will not cause any serious in ury to a person thrown against the same or to a person against whom the lass falls. i

Having tlus described my invention, what I I desire to claim and secure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. A Vehicle window composed of reinforced glasshaving non-reticulated parallel strands of embedded reinforcing wire arranged in parallelism with the plane of the normal movement of the vehicle.

2. A vehicle window composed of reinforced glass, having non-reticulated embedded parallel strands of wire-arranged horizontally.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe ny name this 14th day of September, A. D., 1923.

`HUGO L. KLEIN. 

